skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leaves car full of batteries and cables running in front of a lodge for two days. If this were 2020, every three letter agency would be surrounding the place.
Thanks a lot for breaking down the problem. This choice is basically driven by the development team. It is my plan to maintain a single code base for all the services we are building. Right now even though all three engineers have experience in Java or Python or NodeJS, each one picks a language that they are very familiar with. We did one architecture discussion last week and the next one should probably be like the one you mentioned above. Thanks for your feedback
> drifted for 14 months, during which the crew lived on desalinated seawater and rice

Doesn't sound like fun.
Thanks for the recommendation on The Transparent Society. I haven't read it, but certainly will.

The idea that the surveillance tools are "put in the hands of masses" neglects the part where the "masses" includes corporations that do it better, because they have the ability to pay handsomely thousands of people to make it effective. So rather than accept the defeatist position -- "We are powerless to stop technology," even though surveillance capitalism is a choice, and one that we don't have to accept -- we can choose meaningful laws which restrict those actions. We can choose meaningful laws which change the economic imperatives so that corporations don't profit from tracking and shaping human behavior. Will it be perfect? Absolutely not. Is defeat inevitable? Perhaps. But sitting on the sidelines and choosing not to shape that future because of some sense of foregone inevitability.... that cannot be the future, unless we believe that those now with the ability to shape it (and someone will -- Google, Facebook, or someone else) deserve to have that right without being challenged.

I cannot accept that. I will not be gaslit into believing that I'm 'too concerned' or 'reading too much into it'. This does not have to be our future.
> nothing helps as much as a good night sleep

...so of course a lot of tech companies absolutely wreck their employees' sleep habits with crunch times, oncall requirements, notifications around the clock, etc.
You don't have to give up the convenience of it if you don't want to.

If you're using zsh, it has the "command_not_found" option, which will be triggered for shell commands that aren't found, but won't be triggered for subcommands or non-interactive shells.

If you add the following as your command not found handler, you'll be able to keep on typing "a.out" instead of "./a.out" without the security issue.

command_not_found_handler() { [ -x "./$0" ] && exec "./$@" }

Bash has a similar mechanism (command_not_found_handle) as well.
Always start all your bash scripts with

set -e

You'll never regret it and might be very very very happy it was there. And if you start with that, then as you work on the shell script, you'll be more likely to make the script be idempotent (checking for files before copying, checking for lines in files before appending/sed'ing etc.) Idempotent >> non-idempotent for "alter the state on an end point" things.
"Unusual opinions" can mean a lot of things. It's not hard to express unusual opinions without breaking the site guidelines, but often people can't resist ranting, lashing out at the mainstream and so on, at the same time. That approach is guaranteed to get downvoted, and typically the commenter does not think "perhaps I could have expressed myself more thoughtfully". Instead they think, "I am being downvoted for my unpopular opinions". It always feels like the fault lies with others. (Edit: of course that applies to what I'm saying here, too...fair's fair.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's self-hosted, the idea being you run it on your own nas or lan.

Also, there's no reason it has to be for porn. It's a video organiser.
Users of this app should probably see a therapist?
What sites allow employees to sell their options/shares to non-employees?
And I think that's fundamentally the point (for those who think through it that far and aren't just following the crowd).

2008 produced a lot of resentment of the heads-I-win, tails-you-lose financial arrangement (in terms of financial services companies) of the Western world, but there wasn't any attainable way of actually taking action based on that belief.

Now, there is. WSB gets to have its lulz, specifically at the expense of those they feel wronged them (banks, traders, etc).

As the saying went in Eve Online from Goonswarm, it doesn't matter if you lose 1,000 ships, if everyone wants to hang out with you instead of the other team. Cultural victory.

I imagine the first HFT firms felt very similarly.
Yes, this was a well-known part of the Sakoku policy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku

Having heard what had happened in much of the rest of Asia, the shoguns were extremely concerned about Christian proselytizing, and this was their extreme but effective way of making it impossible. All local Christian converts were also put to death.
I'm not agreeing with you.

>Journalists are reporting on things that happened today, and the deadline is in an hour.

This is not the definition of a journalist.

>"100% is impossible so 90% is no different than 3%" is the perfect as the enemy of the good.

This is written as if reduction of journalistic opinion is the goal. I don't agree this is a goal. I'm not interested in a reduction of subjectivity in journalism. I'm interested in an increase in factual, expansive, multi-viewpoint reporting and analysis. If that comes with 3% journalistic opinion (whatever that means) or 83%, I'm fine with it.

What's not ok is journalistic subjectivity filling in for factual, expansive, multi-viewpoint reporting. However, there are plenty of journalists who are clearly capable of avoiding this issue.
Depends on where you measure from but yea, 70 might be low. You can talk over two dozen heavies pulling 2ks on air rowers which definitely places it under 100dB.
the number please?

ie. how many intel and TSMC bought and is using now
I really like the paper that shows that higher density of associations (the way Putnam measures "social capital") was associated with higher support for the Nazi party in Germany[^1]. Things are not as simple as "trust=good".

[1]:https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/690949?jou...
One of the main differences is that LALR parsers don't use backtracking to implement "choice". Parsing happens in a single pass over the input. With parser combinators, ambiguity is silently resolved by accepting the first option that the parser tries. Bottom up LR parsers also do a better job of dealing with left recursion, compared to top down parsers. If you want to parse something using a recursive descent parser (or combinators) you may need to rephrase the grammar to avoid left recursion.

Some of the main downsides of LR parsers are that you need to use a parser generator and you have to know how to resolve possible shift/reduce conflicts. It's more complicated than top down parser, which is just a bunch of regular recursive functions.
I think naturally occurring psychotropic substances should not be illegal, i.e. don't criminalize plants or nature itself. Plants that contain psilocin and psilocybin, DMT, THC, ibogaine, mescaline, and any other natural compounds should not be illegal.

However, man-made drugs that are chemically derived such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, fentanyl, etc. should most certainly be kept on the illegal list.

Why the personal distinction? Because the natural "drugs" are not addictive, they are psychosomatically harmless, they have been found to be extensively therapeutic, and it's nigh impossible to surpass the LD50 and induce a lethal overdose. On the other hand, man-made drugs destroy the body, the mind, have lead to an ongoing opioid crisis, and can easily lead to death.

Just my $0.02
Some of the arguments against say “Apple will never make truly repairable phones! If we let these laws pass, they’ll just take those sweet sweet phones away and we won’t be able to buy them anymore!”

But, realistically it will probably mean that Apple gets some sort of “temporary” thing in place that lets them circumvent the law until such point that they do the bare minimum to be able to convince lawmakers that “See? We’re doing good. Certainly you can change the law just a little so that we’re allowed to do that. Right?”
I actually really like DO spaces, I use it for hosting a small audio podcast. One downside is they give you NO way to see your bandwidth usage, other than seeing whether you got a bill overage or not. It was pretty surprising to me that they HAVE the information for billing, but don't expose it to the user of spaces in any way.
In principle anything -- it's a very no-frills scraper and tagger with per-video bookmarking capabilities. Also, the codebase is very...well engineered.
Sort of, right, because after inflation 14% of 35,000 ($233,463.53 in 2021 dollars @ 14% = $32,620) is still a lot more than 3% of 700,000 ($21,000).
> baseless accusations of voter fraud used to undermine voter confidence

You mean like the Russia hoax?
That might not have helped in this case, if the email was sent from the same account.

The hacker had access to messages from the sender side without access to the account being reset.
Yes a bit selection bias in my case.

> referencing existing documents throughout American history that show just how vitriolic communications were.

> Do you know many corn farmers from the Midwest states? Do you know any deep sea welders from ...

Maybe you're right that those groups of people more often communicate in the ways you say.

At the same time, maybe they do also in Mexico or Italy or Kongo and in lots of other countries too.

So the examples doesn't really mean anything to me. Thanks anyway for explaining how you were thinking.

The US is a large country and by cherry picking examples one can "prove" anything one wants.
Someone received $3000 surgical metal mesh gloves At their hospital.

Vendor forgot to takeoff the bass pro shop sticker.
I enjoy having a copy of the history in slack.

What I do is have all jenkins deploys send a record to the #deploys channel (Service X, version Q deployed by person Y completed successfully in Z minutes), which comes for free with a tiny jenkins plugin.

However one of the unicorns I worked at deleted all slack messages after 3 months for legal reasons, as one example. Also, slack has periodic outages.

I think a lot of people underutilize jenkins, but once you're handy with it (and get over its god-awful ui) you never go back.
I had a terrible, terrifying experience with DO where they hard locked my account for days (and it would have been weeks if I hadn't made a huge stink) because of a misunderstanding. They ban/lock first, ask questions later, and that's not cool and I can't have my (and my customer's) important infrastructure treated that way.

I now use Linode for most of my stuff, and once they have cloud firewalls available in Dallas I'll be moving the rest of infrastructure over as I can.

I really need to write up my story into a blog post I can link to, but until then, I put a recap here a few days ago for anyone interested in the details. Mine wasn't as bad as some people's, but pretty scary personally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25806086
Cs 133 isn't radioactive. Tritium is, but at least until recently, it was still commonly used in watches for illumination. Low-level beta source, expensive but not especially hazardous.
> sake and cookies were shared until late in the night. By daybreak, however, cannons had been brought closer to the seaside, and they were again fired at the ship. Hundreds of small boats, each with a small cannon at the front, also started to surround and attack the ship.

That reads like comedy.
I'd have flagged it already but "voting machines" is vaguely tech related and it's still here.

It appears you only care what a sizable portion of HN wants up to a point as they are the one's upvoting and downvoting the comments.
Wow. Something tells me if this is the new record for land animals we'll eventually find something that lived in the ocean that's bigger than a blue whale.
With more trust, there is less profit the corporations can make, and less tax income. There are many reasons for the decline of trust in the community. I think that one of them is marketing that exploits fears of strangers or peddles weird apps that replace parts of human interaction.
I never close the window, though. Just minimize it. Thanks for the info, though.
Tempus edax rerum :(
Before every deploy your branch has master merged into it. There’s some clever work by Hubot while you’re in line to deploy to create a version of your branch that has the potential new master / main branch. If conflicts arise you fix them before it’s your turn to deploy.
Coding kitty, really? [JS animated meme]
High efficiency and very high performance trustless backup setup: send incremental (encrypted, compressed) ZFS snapshots to rsync.net, hetzner, or buyvm. This produces smaller backups than rsync or similar tools, produces them faster, and also shields your data from prying eyes, as it’s all encrypted when it leaves your machine.
I understand technically what a gamma squeeze is and how it happens, but I don't understand why the banks/brokers are on the other side of you buying a call option. It seems totally exploitable.

Are banks/brokers selling you the call because they think they will make money from it? Or are they doing it because they are acting as a market maker role and just wanting to have liquidity in the market?

Edit: read some other comments here and I think I understand now.
I also found that to be really bizarre and there’s threads of users requesting usage info going back to over a year ago.
No- I definitely agree. I've on occasion made a call with someone who could hear me, and they point out I am not talking like normal.

And to your broader points, I find myself wiped out after any significant Zoom calls. Even a stand up that runs a little long leads to me feeling wiped out
Laches isn't a "punt". Laches is, the courts don't like being used as a machine for your lawsuit to hold the public hostage. You don't get to see grounds for suing, do nothing, then once the results of the lawsuit will do maximum damage to the public, then sue. The courts are not interested in letting you use them for, essentially, blackmail.

If you knew months before the election that the rules were being changed, why not file a lawsuit then? Why wait until after the election, when you've got the deadline of the Electoral College vote, and your lawsuit is going to literally disenfranchise every voter in the state?

Laches isn't a punt. It's sanity in the face of insane lawsuits trying to game the court system.
Would you happen to know if there are plans to have a library stored in an object store like Backblaze B2 versus local disk?
Silly question: they have 5.7TB in their database... How come? It's a dating app founded in 2012, I can understand that one can accumulate such much data in 11 years, but sure you can periodically archive "unused" data and move it out of your primary database, right? I mean, are the 5.7TB of data actually needed in a daily basis by their app?

(I assume data for analytical purposes is not stored in their primary DB, which is fair to assume I believe)
I so wish mine would do so. Right eye is a worse prescription and seems tied to some minor brain damage.

Causes intense pain to use both eyes.
> All the claims if significant vote fraud were thrown out by courts up and down the land, including the Supreme Court

I don’t believe that is true. As far as I know, there weren’t really any claims of voter fraud from Trump’s legal team.
Really have to agree with the doubters.

I have used Autotools since the nineties and I have never been able to understand it or make use of it for a fresh project (well once, using some gui tool that completely abstracted away the pain, was incompatible with anything else, and who's name escapes me now)

In its day it was a wonder: tar xf; cd ... ; ./configure --prefix=`pwd` ; make ; make test (if you are very lucky) ; make install

But times have changed.

Interfaces are much more standardised now, and from where I sit it is the "polyglot" problem that is interesting, not different architectures.

It is time to pick a winner from all the multitude of tools out there and GNU should go with that....
The machine count of mail-in ballots is checked by a hand count audit. For instance, in Georgia every ballot was recounted by humans to confirm the accuracy of the machine count.
I don't think I've ever seen a model A in the wild but I've seen plenty of B's still working. I have a 20yo model C that I upgraded with a new monitor and handle and it still works like it was unboxed yesterday.
How would that have worked with multiple replicas cascading from the new primary? Streaming replication doesn't work across versions, so would we have had to build out a tree of new instances, then pg_upgrade them all at the same time?
I wish someone added a Makefile backend to meson. That would make it a much more appealing as an alternative to the autotools mess.
I second Jellyfin. Ecosystem support is improving, and it's committed to staying open-sourced.
I'd love to see these so called patriots champion installing Gore for a bonus term since he was actually shafted by a mismanaged election. Nobody went looney bin insane over that.
I seem to recall there being some efforts to standardize "fixes" for C, and they never got adopted by anybody important, so the C development community kind of just failed hardcore to prevent it. IMHO it was never about the tools, it was about how we used them and the interfaces for common conventions.

Actually, I take that back: it is also the tools' fault. GCC should just refuse to compile any reference to strcpy().
So, did the author pursue surgical treatment, or do we have to buy the book to find out?
I've developed negative feelings toward autotools over time, but I'm not sure how much I should be blaming autotools versus the projects that use autotools.

One annoyance is that it often feels like "./configure ..." takes longer to run than the actual "make".

But my main annoyance derives from that fact that most projects I build from source which use autotools don't build cleanly on anything but Linux x86/amd64. I spend a lot of time playing with non-Linux and/or non-x86 Unix systems, or using vendor compilers instead of gcc -- primarily Solaris (both x86 and SPARC), Linux on POWER, and AIX on POWER. Current versions of IBM's compilers, Sun (err...Oracle's) compilers, etc. Run the configure script, let it slowly probe all the little corners of whatever it's probing, and sometimes I'm lucky enough that it completes successfully and claims to understand the environment it's in. Then run make (or, as is often required, GNU make), and hit build errors very quickly.

Which makes me think... why did I just sit through that long "configure" script run, and why did the developer bother messing with autotools, if this project isn't even going to bother targeting anything but Linux with the GNU toolchain to build it? If you're not concerned about portability, it seems a relatively simple Makefile would be an easier and faster approach. Why foist the [insert your favorite colorful descriptor here, depending on your personal feelings] autoconf system on builders of your project?
Just go to the next page?
After Three Decades, You Can Finally Have a Distributed SQL Database
It is, arguably, deployed at scale, if you squint and call it delta compression. The reason its not more widely used is there are drawbacks. Updates can be more expensive, for instance: what was a single-key change perhaps blew up a 1000 key "line" and now all those keys need reshuffling. You also see more muted returns because generally keys in indexes point to something, so compressing the keys creates complexity in how you map each key to its value or reference. Compared to a solution that stores keys close to their values, a solution that packs keys together gets poor cache locality for resolving the values, and may need mapping tables.

Basically, delta compression is used all over the place, but it isnt a silver bullet.
I don’t have anything to add on monitoring distance, but both of the affidavits you linked specifically agree with the video that they left and not that they were kicked out, because everyone thought counting was finished for the night. Neither of them claims they wouldn’t have been allowed to stay if they had stayed until the room was empty.

What the state investigator says, and what those affidavits both appear to agree with, is

> Nobody told them to stay. Nobody told them to leave. Nobody gave them any advice on what they should do. And It was still open for them or the public to come back in to view at whatever time they wanted to, as long as they were still working.

I’m going to give more credence to the affidavits of the people who were directly involved over the wording from ABC.

One of them did return later and was allowed in, but arrived as the counting was complete.

It’s an unfortunate situation that everyone was told it was closing down and then the secretary of state’s office called to tell them to keep counting, but that doesn’t support Giuliano’s claims about rigging the election with suitcases of ballots from under a table.
Microsoft ridicules MacBook Pro for not having a touch screen
Are the specific votes public record? If not, it is impossible to verify votes were recorded correctly. But the addresses being public record is interesting. If that information is public record then it would be easy for citizens to randomly verify enough records to ascertain whether enough votes were dumped to make a difference. If what you say is correct then I can try verifying it myself. Why has no one publicly done this? Would be an easy way to put the matter to rest.

UPDATE: I just checked the GA website, and all it gives me is voter IDs and whom they voted for. No way I can verify vote fraud did not occur from that information. No addresses or names.
There's a 2020 movie loosely based on the real story of the Republic of Rose Island, on Netflix. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Island_(film)
(1) IMO your point about scale is asinine. If it doesn't scale, it can only help a small number of people so the net welfare increase is negligible. Might as well not exist if it can't scale. I'm not saying to everyone, I'm saying to more than a single Costco. As I said, Layer 2 doesn't count because you can just as easily set up a fiat bank as an exchange, and with far less regulation in exchanges you take on way more risk. Fine, whatever, we won't see eye to eye on that.

(2) Debit interchange in Europe is capped at 0.2% and has been since 2015 [1]

(3) Let's walk through my proposal. Step 1: Sign up for TransferWise Borderless Account. Step 2: Receive EUR. There is no fee, and there is no step 3. If you don't trust your local currency why wouldn't you just hold EUR or USD or CAD or NZD? They're actually stable and don't drop 40% in a month.

Let's walk through your proposal. Step 1: Convince someone in Europe to sign up for an exchange, verify their identities and whatnot. Make a SEPA transfer into the exchange, pay 1-2%. Wait 1-2 days. Buy a crypto. Transfer the crypto to you. Pay a fee. $15 for BTC right now. Step 4: Convert at whatever rate to your local currency, pay 1-2%. Deposit it into a bank anyways since nobody uses crypto. All the while taking on huge counterparty risk, a large bid-ask spread and exchange rate shift risk. Step 5: Commit tax fraud by not reporting your transaction. That sounds like (2+6=8% to 4+6=10%) to me for the Brazilian in your situation.

If that's flying free, I'm ok on the ground.

How could you possibly believe the latter is better than the former?

[1] https://www.adyen.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-eu...
Electronic waste disposal. The project is 5 years late and obsolete.